Learn Vietnamese With SVFF
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My Experience with Ms. Thảo Tâm & SVFF
I want to preface this by saying, I am Việt kiều and have grown up around Vietnamese speakers but it was difficult for me to pick up the language because I spoke and interacted with mostly English speakers in my daily life. I've always gotten made fun of by family and friends who spoke Vietnamese lol. Ms. Thảo Tâm has helped me tremendously with learning my Vietnamese. I have been studying with her for about 6 months now and am very happy with my progress. There is a structure to the course but my classes always felt like they were tailored to me because she really puts in the effort to get to know my goals and my life. A typical lesson would involve reviewing the coursework, reading, writing, role-playing, and listening. Recently, I have expressed interest in learning how to type in Vietnamese and Tâm has been incorporating that into our lessons. Pronunciation of tones was probably the hardest thing for me but Tâm has really helped me improved my pronunciation and Southern accent. I am able to speak to my family members better because the barrier between language is getting smaller and people have noticed how much better my Vietnamese is now. Lastly, I just want to highlight how patient and encouraging Ms. Thảo Tâm is. I come into every class with a dozen of questions and she always makes time to answer them and usually goes past our scheduled meeting time to help me understand them. There was a time I felt like I plateaued because I was struggling so much with pronunciation. She saw how frustrated I was and broke it down for me so that I could understand and build my confidence. Vietnamese is a pretty hard language even for someone like me who has grown up with it. I had a stint where I was trying to self-learn but the immersion, care, and dedication of Ms. Thảo Tâm and the SVFF team is what ultimately helped me improved my Vietnamese.